The
sons of El Chapo are being blamed as the perpetrators of the attack against the
Mexican military. According to the state governor, Mario Lopez Valdez, in the
convoy was 17 soldiers, five of whom died, 10 more were wounded and two were
unhurt.

Also wounded is a paramedic whose condition is listed as “stable”.

A rescued person was using an alias of
Julio Oscar Ortiz Vega, but reports from Culiacan state he is in fact is
Aureliano Guzmán Loera, brother of "El Chapo" Guzman.

Original Article and videos available at El Debate
Translated by El Wachito

During the morning of this Friday a gunfight between an armed commando an military personnel left 5 killed and 10 injured. The gunfight started around 4:00 AM in the outskirts of the city on the road leading to the city towards the north over Mexico 15, when unknown armed commandos lead a cold blooded attack against the soldiers.

"The vehicles were on flames" All Photos taken by: Luis Perez/EL DEBATE

He was arrested back
2010, his name is Gerardo Alvarez Vazquez, alias "El Indio" or
"The Chayán", he was a BLO operator, and in 2010 the secretariat of
the mexican marina confirmed that he is the father of a child conceived with
former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.

Doesn’t ring a
bell? She is the former Miss Universe, who Hillary Clinton thought it important to speak
about, in the first presidential debate.
Clinton going back 25 years, alleges that Trump called Machado “Miss
Piggy”, and “Miss Housekeeper”.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Culiacan is the clandestine methamphetamine factory of the country. Data provided by the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) indicates that the state capital is the city where the largest number of drug laboratories are concentrated.

From 2005 to May 2016, 261 clandestine laboratories were located. That quantity represents 20 percent of the 1,314 thousand found throughout the rest of the country.

The second highest number of laboratories, 91, were found is Apatzingan; followed by Buena Vista Tomatlan, with 66, both in the state of Michoacan.

Cartels have installed laboratories in 21 states, but most of them are located on the Pacific Coast.

Sinaloa, Michoacan and Jalisco account for 1,103 laboratories found in a decade, which represents 83 percent of of those decommissioned nationwide.

Translated by El Wachito for Borderland Beat Original article available at Riodoce, 9.25.16

By Miguel Angel Vega, reporting for Riodoce

The Guzman supremacy positioned itself through the war they were waging since June from this year against the Beltran Leyva Cartel, due to the operations conducted by Aureliano Guzman Loera "El Guano" and his gunman. After a firefight that lasted hours, Guano's gunman were able to take control of the town.

Huixiopa welcome sign

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Huixiopa is the land where notorious drug trafficker Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno "El Azul" was born, and it was from there where the commandos that took control over la Tuna and stormed the house of doña Consuelo Loera, mother of Joaquin el Chapo Guzman, were dispatched, resulting in the beginning of the new war.

In a shocking claim, the lawyer for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
said he has proof the Mexican drug lord is being tortured in prison.

Jose Refugio Rodriguez, Guzman’s lawyer, told Fox News
Latino on Monday that he handed Guzman’s psychiatric evaluation to a judge to
prove that his client is suffering from acute isolation – which he claims is a
form of torture.

"Cruel and unusual treatment is torture," Rodriguez
said.

Guzman, who is currently being held in a federal prison on
the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez,
presents symptoms of “generalized anxiety disorder and mild neurocognitive
impairment” which “prove that he is being submitted to mistreatment during his
incarceration,” the medical report obtained by Fox News Latino said.

Guzman’s legal team is fighting for its notorious client to
be moved back to the maximum security El Altiplano prison in Central
Mexico. The cartel king famously escaped from El Altiplano through
a mile-long tunnel in July of 2015. He was recaptured in January.

“We requested this evaluation by an expert so steps can be
taken so that he is not isolated anymore,” the lawyer said.

According to a DEA spokesperson, Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG
have fought several battles in the US
in a fight for territory.

United States- Despite their leader’s capture, the Sinaloa
Cartel, which is now presumably under the command of Chapo’s sons, continues to
be one of the major threats towards the US
as the trafficking of heroin continues to increase. During an interview, DEA
spokesperson, Russell K. Baer said that Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG are fighting
for the crown of heroin in the US,
a territory which was dominated by Colombian groups in the past.

”El Chapo might be in custody and perhaps even stripped from
power, but his sons are very involved in the criminal activities of the cartel”
says Baer

Mexico is
also being fought in the US,
where CJNG has increased its wealth, influence, and ability to traffic drugs.

According to the spokesperson of the DEA, the heads of one
of the factions of the Sinaloa Cartel are the two sons of El Chapo: Ivan
Archivaldo Guzman AKA El Chapito, and Jesus Alfredo Guzman AKA El Afredillo (Alfredillo
was kidnapped and eventually freed by CJNG last month). Despite the fight
between both cartels, the group native of La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa
continues being the group that has circulated the most drugs in American
territory. For this same reason, the fight that these two cartels have fought
in

A banner with the faces of the 43 missing students hangs in Tixtla,
Guerrero, on Feb. 6, 2014. It reads, “Tixtla and El Fortín support the
families of the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students. They took them
alive, we want them alive!”

Yesterday there were marches of human rights activist and protestors around the globe commemorating the 2nd anniversary of kidnapping and murder of students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School in Guerrero state in Mexico.

Some people say this is old news (the disappearances and subsequent investigation by the government) and why do we continue to dwell on it. They say we should just move on because we may never know that really happened and the students are only a tiny fraction of the total number of disappearances in Mexico over the last decade.

In answer to them, there are many reasons why we cannot allow the case of the 43 (as it has become known as) to just become a statistic and forgotten with the passage of time. Can you imagine the uproar that would shake the world if 43 students from an American university were kidnapped and disappeared.

The emergence of a social movement with international reach is one of the few positive developments in the Ayotzinapa case over the last two years. "We are all part of a system," said the Mexican Catholic priest and human rights activist Alejandro Solalinde during a lecture at Barnard College in Manhattan on May 5, 2015. "If we analyze reality as scattered elements we won't find answers… But if we interpret everything as part of a larger system, then we will understand what is going on." Solalinde described Ayotzinapa as X-rays of Mexican politics.

Amado Tlatempa, cousin of two of the 43 missing students—Jesús Jovany Rodríguez Tlatempa and José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa—believes that Ayotzinapa has elevated the moral conscience of Mexico, and will give people the courage to fight for their rights.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

According to
information published by the newspaper El Debate, the victims were discovered
about 5:50am on General Cabanillas Street. A vehicle pulled to the street,
stopped and dumped the bodies of 5 men and 1 woman, piled atop each other.

The deceased were
blindfolded with duct tape with feet and hands bound. 5 have been identified,
one of the men and the female are siblings. Only first names were publicized by
authorities:

Alfredo "N"
Raul "N" Miguel "N" and Caesar "N" are the names
of the males, while the identity of the female is Sotera "N".

Reports reveal they had
been kidnapped on Saturday.

The bodies all had
multiple bullet impact wounds.

Sinaloa has experienced
and uptick in violence, in the past months due to a power clash between El
Chapo loyalists, versus Beltran Leyva.

The United States Freezes Assets of Four Mexican With Ties to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel

On Friday September 23, 2016
the United States in Washington, D.C. sanctioned four Mexicans citizens accused
of drug trafficking and/or money laundering for the Sinaloa Cartel. The Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) attached to the Treasury Department identified the Mexicans as:

Translated by Yaqui for BorderlandBeat El SudCaliforniano Sept 17, 2018 Orginazacion MexicanoBB Note: At his term end Claderon estimated over 25k dead in clandestine graves in the border states. Mexico does not count economic migrants missing from other countries, and the missing are never moved to the dead count unless evidence is located to prove their death......Amnesty International estimates 12k per year migrants 'go missing'.

The Federal Government Recognizes 27, 638 Missing Persons NGO's Say There Are More

Unsolvable links are shared by clandestine graves with missing persons; with nefarious links that expose a widespread reality that has existed for decades and intensified in the 21st Century for Mexico. How many are there? Where are they? Why are they here? Who killed them? The figures are uncertain, but the terror and the pain are perpetual.

Throughout Mexico in tropical forests, under bushes and thickets, on the prairies, savannas, and deserts of the terrain there are clandestine graves.But also they are in the empty lots in cities and towns. There are virtually thousands of corpses that do not appear in any statistics, never the less they are homicides.

Anything new? No. Value what is said by Francisco Rivas, Director General of the National Citizen Observatory:

"Enough already with making excuses such as "before it was worse, we did not to know what to do, we didn't know what to combat or who created this situation, we did not effectively address the security problem. Enough of the looking for justifications that allow for the reproduction of so much violence and delinquency. If the current trend of social statistics remain we will actually end 2016 with 19,560 direct victims of homicide and many more victims who will pay the consequences of a country where it's institutions have failed to guarantee social peace nor has respect for human rights."

BB Note: The war between the Chapitos and Beltran
Leyva presented itself in June, when the home of El Chapo’s mother came under
attack. It was largely assumed that the
perpetrators were Beltran Leyva.Since
that date the conflict has heated up to a full struggle for power and control
of the region. The theory is Beltran Leyva initiated the attack to force a
“show down” with El Chapo’s people and gain greater control ofterritory in the region. Each group is from
the region and has controlled areas.This week Chapitos took control ofHuixiopa in Badiraguato, which was controlled by Beltrn Leyva.

Because of the money
seized, (the amount of money they concede was in the plane) and the few
quantity of weapons, it is more likely that the shipment was already dropped
and was stopped after the delivery.....Article begins below

Friday, September 23, 2016

Translated by El Wachito for Borderland Beat Original article available at Riodoce, 9.22.16

By Miguel Angel Vega, reporting for Riodoce

A dozen of armed man, under the command of Aureliano Guzman Loera "El Guano", took control of a small town known as Huixiopa in Badiraguato which was a controlled area under the people of the Beltran Leyva brothers.

From that town were deployed the armed commandos that took control of La Tuna last month and invaded the house of Consuelo Loera, mother of el Chapo Guzman. The armed commando killed at least two locals.

According to a patrol conducted by Riodoce(news chain from Sinaloa), the town was abandoned because the local residents ran to other nearby ranches or to Culiacan due to the daily armed clashes.

MEXICO
CITY — International human rights officials are demanding an
investigation into the brutal sexual assaults of 11 Mexican women during
protests a decade ago — an inquiry that would take aim at President Enrique Peña Nieto, who was the governor in charge at the time of the attacks.

The
demand is part of a multiyear examination by the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights into abuses during a 2006 crackdown ordered
by Mr. Peña Nieto on San Salvador Atenco, a town in Mexico State where
demonstrators had taken over the central square. During the operations,
which left two dead, more than 40 women were violently detained by the
police, packed onto buses and sent to jail several hours away.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

The controversial Julian Leyzaola came to Tijuana when the city needed him the most. Kidnappings and extortion's occurred on a daily basis, even the taco stands, ice cream shops, and the guy with the crutches selling lottery tickets in la Zona Rio paid his tributes to the cartels.

There was a huge lack of morals and values from the drug traffickers, which in reality weren't drug traffickers, but only a group of abusers and unjust traffickers of drugs from those times.

"Tjuana was enduring its darkest days when Julián Leyzaola Pérez rose to prominence in 2008 and 2009 as a tough-minded police chief who taunted drug traffickers, chased down criminals, even arrested his own officers—winning both ardent followers and vehement critics."-Sandra Dibbler reporting for San Diego Union Tribune

Like its said in the drug trafficking world, drug traffickers are not supposed to mess with the people. Drug traffickers are supposed to allow the citizens to live in peace and tranquility, with no kidnappings and abuses. It was supposed to be the other way around, citizens should be empowered and supported, however in Tijuana, during that time period the practice was different.

Catholic Priests, are among the bravest drug war heroes of Mexico, and they are being killed at an escalating and appalling rate. Few are reporting the full story, or are reporting the numbers inaccurately, including the Catholic Church.

The fact that Mexico is one of the most dangerous places on earth for reporters is well known, what is far less written about is the violence perpetrated against Catholic Priests.

Mexico is officially now the most dangerous place on earth for Catholic Priests. While long in the top group of most dangerous places for priests, Mexico is now its leader. For the sixth consecutive year, Mexico tops the list in murders and disappearances of Catholic priests in Latin America.

What must be established, murders and kidnappings of priests receive little attention outside regional reporting hubs. It is a perplexing, how a story of dozens of priests being murdered by cartels during 2 administrations goes unrecognized, or for example, a story about 5 priests being killed in November–December of 2013 in Tamaulipas and Veracruz, is but a tiny blip on the media radar.

Inaccuracy of numbers

It must be pointed out, that priests are kidnapped, often from churches or rectories, but the "disappearance" never budges from being labeled as such, to being counted as “killed” or "dead", unless there is a body. Those kidnapped and not found, are not recorded on a drug war casualty list.

In fairness, neither is any other group of people, which renders summations weak and without merit.

Nonetheless, the point being, as the title of this post says; ' "dozens" of priests killed during the Calderon-Peña Administrations', astonishing in of itself, still is an accurate tally.

Then there is misreporting, much like municipalities are known to ascribe to, in attempting to lower the rate of violence.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Translated by Chuck B Alamada for Borderland Beat from a 24 HORAS article

Tuesday 20, September, 2016

VERACRUZ-This
morning (Tuesday September 20), armed men forced their way into a Catholic
church located in Poza Rica, Veracruz
with the intention of kidnapping two priests. Hours later, the lifeless bodies
of the two priests were located near a placed called “La Curva del Diablo” (the
devil’s curve). According to reports, a group of armed men arrived at the
Nuestra Senora de Fatima church in the Petromex neighborhood where they
kidnapped priests, Alejo Nabor Jimenez Juarez and Jose Alfredo Juarez de la
Cruz and their assistant.

Photo Courtesy of 24 Horas

Neighbors of the church notified police of the kidnapping
and an operation to find them was launched.

Minutes later, the assistant was located alive near the Poza
Rica-Papantla roads with obvious wounds. It was determined that the assistant
was able to escape his captors. Hours later, the bodies of the two priests were
found also near the Poza Rica-Papantla road, in the Reforma Escolin community
located within the Papantla municipality.

Both priests were tied and showed obvious signs of multiple
gunshot wounds in different parts of the body to include the face.

Photo courtesy of El MUNDO

According to the Centro Catolico Multimedial, there have
been 14 priests and one seminary student murdered as well as two priests that
remain missing in Mexico
since President Enrique Pena Nieto took power in 2012.

Veracruz is currently
the bloody stage that has witnessed a war between Los Zetas and Jalisco Nueva
Generacion which both seek to take over the narcotics trafficking routes to the
US, the theft
of fuel from PEMEX, as well as kidnappings, extortions against residents and
migrants from Central America.

TECATE, BAJA CALIFORNIA NORTE-Last Friday evening, someone left a human head on the privately
owned vehicle of a security member of Tecate’s Police Chief, Bartolome Lam
Canto. Along the human head, the perpetrators also left behind a cardboard with
a narco message directed at the Chief of Police. Several Investigative agencies
secured the crime scene while detectives collected evidence.

The human head was left on a brown sedan vehicle which
belongs to one of Chief Bartolome Lam Canto’s security staff members along with
the cardboard which contained threats directed towards all those working with
members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The vehicle was parked in front of the police station at the
time of the incident.

Photo Courtesy

The green cardboard contained the following message:

“THIS WILL HAPPEN TO ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH THE
AKILES SISTERS OR RANA HERE THE SKY IS PEARL.
THE DICK IS HERE, SIT ON IT. CJNG AND CTNG

From what is visible, the message left for Chief Bartolome
Lam Canto and his agency is signed by Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG)
and the Cartel Arrelano Felix, under the acronym of CTNG which stands for
Cartel de Tijuana Nueva Generacion.

Municipal agents have admitted to ZETA that Chief Lam Canto only
has three or four patrol vehicle patrolling the entire city and assigns only a
handful of officers to fixed location.

Just a few weeks ago and a few blocks away from the Chiefs
home, the home of one of his commanders was shot up.With this latest human head found, there have been 38
murders so far this year in the MagicalTown (Pueblo Magico) and countless
people injured as a result of gunfire.

UPDATE: Saturday, 17 September, 2016

A day after the discovery of a human head left on a vehicle
belonging to one of the security members of Tecate’s Police Chief, Bartolme Lam
Canto, the body to that head was located. The remains were found in a dirt road
southeast of the city. The victim was wearing a blue shirt, jeans, and black
boots. Additionally, the victim had obvious burn marks about his back,
buttocks, and legs which according to investigators, were caused by the perpetrators.

Photo Courtesy of ZETA

An investigator told ZETA: “They tried burning the body but
it didn’t catch on fire.”

Unlike the human head where the perpetrators left a
cardboard with a message, authorities did not
find a message with the rest of
the body. Authorities have identified the victim only as Alejandro and
are currently investigating any possible ties with organized crime or links
with the municipal police including any connection with the Chief of Police
since the head was left outside the police station.

The body was found in an isolated location close to the
tunnel in the Valle Verde neighborhood of Tecate.

Quick Fact: Tecate has around 40 square miles and a
population of about 65,000

Monday, September 19, 2016

Celso Nava, a member of
the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC) in
Tixtla, Guerrero, was found dead a few hours after having been kidnapped.Police reports indicate that on Saturday, an
armed group took him.

The body
was found on the bypass that connects Tixtla with the state capital,
Chilpancingo; however, some members of CRAC “Mi Patria es Primero” (My
Fatherland Comes First), which is one of three divisions of the Community
Police, that is based in the neighborhood of El Fortín, denied that Nava was
part of that organization.

This isn’t
the first fall suffered by CRAC, as it is worth noting that last November 27, a
few days before the extraordinary elections that would dictate who was mayor of
Tixtla, Los Ardillos, a criminal group that operates in the area, assassinated
four community police members.

The attack occurred a
few blocks from the headquarters of the organization.

The two day hearing
scheduled for Alfredo Beltran Leyva last week, was postponed and and a
continuance filed by the defense granted.
In its place a status conference was held.

The reason for the
continuance was a request for a psychiatric evaluation. The evidence to support the request is under
seal. And most likely will remain under
seal.

The move is an unusual
one, especially at this late stage of the case, Alfredo pleaded guilty and the
hearing was pre-sentencing. The hearing
ordered by the judge was considered favorable to the defendant.

This most certainly not
a ploy to stall, as part of the filing the defense attorney submitted evidence
proving his preparedness for the hearing.

Because of the surprising
guilty plea, the judge ordered the 2 day hearing in which prosecutors would
have to prove some of their claims. For
example, the outrageously high forfeiture amount.

That the death of Alberto Cervantes, leader of the group Explosion Norteña, had been preceded by a "kidnapping "is something the Deputy Justice of Playas de Rosarito has ruled out. In addition, according to Attorney Patricia Ortega, by descriptions by witnesses and others, it is possible to draw a "certain direction", that the case is not isolated and the information connects it to other crimes in Tijuana.

But there is relevant data that the prosecution does not have in its possession, for example, Ballistics Bank report specifying whether the Super 38 weapon has been used in other crimes.In addition, although the information dictates that prior to the execution there was a struggle, when he was found, the body of "Beto" had about 28 injuries, including scrapes and tears in the skin, a bullet wound in the left region of the neck and a projectile in the chest."We can not expose a particular line of research, what I can say is that we have interviewed several witnesses, we can only comment that the man was not pushed out of a vehicle, but was walking in the street", stated the assistant attorney of the Rosarito area of ​​Baja California.

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Mexican police have found a 'homemade cannon' used to launch drugs across the border

According to the CNS (Comisión Nacional de Seguridad), the federal police seized a vehicle modified with a cannon that was used to launch packages of drugs across the Mexican Border.

The agency stated through a bulletin "CNS, through a joint effort with the federal police, detected a vehicle with modifications which were apparently used to launch packages of drugs through the Sonoran border".

These are just a few
examples of smuggling tactics used by Mexican and Central American organized
crime groups to move illegal drugs and people across borders and past law
enforcement. But they also exemplify the kinds of innovative behavior and
problem-solving prowess that in other, legal contexts, such as Silicon Valley,
often result in groundbreaking businesses.However, reductionist and
neocolonial theories of Mexican cartels have for too long hamstrung efforts to
properly understand these complex entities and capture the vast potential
therein, according to Dr. Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez. We, in essence, have failed to
study these organizations within the right framework.

D

r Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez
is a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, studying
"criminal entrepreneurship" in drug cartels, who beat Amazon to using
drones for delivery by years, use modified potato guns to shoot cocaine and
marijuana bundles over border fences, and represent the "true libertarian,
Ayn Rand capitalism."

In a wide-ranging
interview with Motherboard, Nieto-Gomez speculates on the future of drug
smuggling (flying and submarine drones), and describes the Silicon Valley-like
relationship between a Mexican investor class and the smuggler-innovators, who
sell a share in future returns in exchange for capital to fund
high-risk/high-tech R&D efforts to beat police interdiction.

Don’t you think if
people really knew the odds of being captured or killed while working as a drug
dealer they might reassess their career choice? But what are the odds of
becoming the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk? They are tiny. But they fuel the
dreams of 90 something percent of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that will
probably fail. It’s ambition. These are low probability high reward kinds of
environments. And that is highly ambitious behavior that you want to encourage.
Those are the people that see a problem and don’t get deterred. They change
everything.

One of the biggest
missed opportunities on the War on Drugs is that we haven’t identified a way of
filtering out these high-risk tolerant people that we are losing to organized
crime. We aren’t providing any alternatives for them to take the exit and
leverage some of the skill sets they acquired in a way that would be both
high-risk and high-reward and also legal.

As criminal groups
clash over territory, violence continues to erupt in Guanajuato. Additional explosives and murders terrorized citizens
over the weekend.

It was Saturday morning
on an old access road to the community of “La Estación La Piedad” that three
plastic bags were discovered, inside the bags contained dismembered human remains. The authorities of the State of
Guanajuato are conducting investigations into the incident.

The gruesome discovery
was reported by people who passed by the road, a road just 200 meters from the Pénjamo-La
Piedad road. The witnesses called the
emergency line and informed the police that there were three plastic bags
thrown, that apparently contained human body
parts.

Elements of the
Municipal Police Penjamo, confirmed the discovery of a dismembered corpses and proceeded
to cordon off the perimeter and notify the Regional Office.

Because of the way the
bags were wrapped it was not possible to determine how many bodies the dismembered
parts belong to. This will be determined
after the bags are moved to the Forensic Medical Service Unit (Semefo).

Saturday, September 17, 2016

In Sinaloa, with a
dedication to “The Boss", Los Tigres del Norte kicked off the national
holiday known as " El Grito ", the 206th anniversary of the Mexican Independence, with
some of their most famous Narcocorridos , this despite the ban that exists in
the state against music that glorifies violence.

Just a week ago, the
state government denied permission for a presentation by Calibre 50 and Gerardo
Ortiz arguing that both groups perform music of the genre of "altered
movement" and in Sinaloa there does not exist the conditions under which
they could perform.

However, a couple of
days later it was announced that Los Tigres del Norte would perform, who are
famous for their songs that make tribute to drug traffickers. In response, Raul Perez Miranda, general Secretary
of the government, said that the musicians would respect the agreement.

his article illustrates
how easily criminality is able to operate behind prison walls. This post is about an incarcerated La Paz
sicario, who has multiple cell phones providing access to social media and
messaging. By using these tools he is able to communicate with narcos outside
prison. This sicario is not a high caliber narco, one can only imagine what
high profile capos have at their disposal.

La Paz, Baja California
Sur (BCS)

From research
intelligence, it was detected that Simon Guillermo alias "El Simon",
or as better known "El Sepultero" (The Undertaker), operated from
inside the "Centro de Reinserción Social (Cereso) de La Paz" with with a mobile phone,
providing him with the ability of using social networks.

It was
announced yesterday, Simón Guillermo, was found in possession of almost 150,000
pesos in cash , three cellular phones , marijuana and crystal inside his
cell, due to this, he was transferred, along with five other high profile prisoners, he was
taken aboard a plane belonging to the Attorney General of the Republic, to the
Deputy Attorney Agency that Specializes in Organized Crime ((SEIDO).

A new
explosion was reported on Monday
September 5, 2016 outside a local business in the center of San
Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. A month ago, another explosion was reported
inside a local bar, El Sotano where an explosive device was placed in a
backpack. During that incident, the explosive device was left on a stage and
one person was injured as a result. On the latest explosion in the center of
San Miguel, the investigative authorities confirmed that they located evidence
of an explosive substance

MEXICO CITY/
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE- Authorities confirmed an explosion in the early
hours of Monday September, 5, 2016
outside a local business in the center of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
The attack with explosives took place between two bars, El Limerick and El
Adelitas. So far in September, there have been at least 3 other attacks with
explosives in different cities of Guanajuato. Exactly a month ago, another
attack with explosives took place in San Miguel de Allende inside El Sotano
bar. During that incident, an explosive device inside a backpack was detonated
on the stage where the music band was playing. Property was extensively damaged
and one person was injured as a result of that explosion.

Photo courtesy of sinembargo.

San Miguel de Allende is an important tourist hub in
Guanjato and Mexico
in general. Additionally, it is the home of thousands of foreign citizens that
decided to move to this picturesque town due to its tranquility, good weather,
and excellent services. September is a month in which San Miguel de Allende
fills up with tourists (Mexican and foreign) due to the independence
festivities. This community which lived in peace for many years is also the
destination for many retired Mexicans.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Translated by Chuck B Alamada for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

Written by Jose Gil Olmos (Proceso)
Thursday, 14 September, 2016

MEXICO CITY- Once again, organized crime continues to
dominate in Michoacan despite the siren’s call by president Enrique Peña Nieto
and the government of Silvano Auereoles (PRD political party) with the arrest
of Servando Gomez La Tuta, leader of Los Caballero Templarios. It was all a lie
since there was an agreement under the table between both governments (Federal
and State governments) with the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and
other local narco groups disguised as autodefensas which again, have been
empowered with weapons and terror.

Fuerzas Rurales showing their new uniforms. Photo by Miguel Dimayuga

The official lie begins with the then Peace Commissioner of
Michoacan, Alfredo Castillo, acting on behalf of President Peña Nieto with the
purpose of taking back territory away from the Caballeros Templarios via the
autodefensas of Tierra Caliente. Autodefensa groups became the combat weapon,
especially with all those autodefensa members that had deserted from the
Caballeros Templarios and became known as the “arrepentidos” (the regretful
ones) which were under the command of the brothers Uriel and Juan Jose Farias
Alvarez AKA El Abuelo, both linked to CJNG.

These two brothers are key to understanding the dark pacts
of Peña Nieto with the CJNG which again have Michoacan in their hands and
continue to cause suffering, violence, and terror with executions, extortions, and
the trafficking of drugs, especially of meth which is shipped to the US
from the Lazaro Cardenas Port. However, for this story, it is important to also
notate the presence of another character that is also key. Colombian General Oscar
Naranjo Trujillo, who made a pact with the Farias brothers and helped form the
autodefensas of Michoacan as groups with paramilitary tactics with weapons and
money from the federal government.

Last year Ana Hernandez, a San Diego teenager, was found shot and beaten to death in off Maket Street in Grant Hill, she had been wrapped in a blanket, and dropped in front of her mother's house. The case bore similarities to organized crime killings in Tijuana, known as encojibado's, wrapped. Ana's killers, were local gang affiliates, who killed her to possibly cover up her rape, and that she may have been being sex trafficked by the men, who weren't much older then Ana.

In a grim parallel to that case, Destiny Memory Hernandez, 18, of San Diego, a Mar Vista High Student, who lived in Imperial Beach, was found on the 'Fast Track' area of Tijuana, in a baseball field, earlier in the month, shot 7 times, in the head, thorax, and abdomen, no signs of sexual assault.

She had been partying in Revolucion, at a bar in Zona Rio with friends, and WhatsApp messages between her, and a girlfriend, state she was headed home with some men she met in a club, to El Florido. The messages state the men were handsome, and include the slang, 'heavy', Her friend advised her to be careful. She never came home, and her family came to Tijuana to investigate, with fliers, and social media outreach.